Device for casting type



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

W. BERRI.

DEVICE FOR CASTING TYPE.

No. 558,145. Patented Apr. 14, 896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIcE.

WVILLIAM BERRI, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

DEVICE FOR CASTING TYPE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,145, dated April14, 1896.

Application filed December 13,1894. Serial No. 531,653. on new.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BERRI, aeiti zen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York,have invented certain new 'and useful Improvements in Devices forCasting Type, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto improvements in molds and the mold1ineconsisting of such molds for casting type.

Especially the invention relates to a mold- .line composed of individualindependentscparate molds, each mold being adapted to the casting ofindividual letters, characters, words, or spaces, and said molds alreadyarranged in the order which said type are to assume in the printed formwith theproper spaces for justification interspersed in the line, theline being thereby justified and ready for printing from.

I believe this invention is the first which has ever rendered itpossible to cast a line of individual type already arranged with thespaces in the order of the words and letters in the line of the printedform, and it possesses great advantages over the manner of casting asolid-line slug, as in other type-casting machines, for, on the onehand, whereas in making corrections in the solid-line slug it isnecessary to discard that particular slug,

in which the mistake occurred and to reset the matrices and cast a newslug, with the possibility of another error occurring, in my manner ofproceeding the erroneous type can be individually removed and a new andcorrect type inserted, just as in hand type-setting, without affectingthe line as a whole.

This invention, while obtaining the speed of type-setting possessed bythe machines over hand-setting, also retains the advantages ofcorrection which hand-setting possesses over machine-setting.

The invention is operated by the agency of individual molds, each ofwhich is adapted to the casting of the individual slug or body of a typeor space, and these molds are arranged in a mold-line in the order whichthe type and spaces will finally assume in the line of the printed form.I prefer to form the molds of matrix-bars, which carry the type-inatriX, and of wall-plates so constructed that being placed at the sidesof the matrixbars they will form the sides of the molds, the tops andbottoms thereof being formed of plates which are held hard down inposition during the operation of casting. That portion of thewall-plates which forms the sides of the molds is made so that differentwidths can be provided at will, thereby producing any width of shoulderor leads or no leads,

at will also, I combine with the matrix-bars and wall-plates aforesaidmold openers, whereby the width of the cast spaces may be governed atwill. I do not, however, in this application claim specifically the formof mold shown, and which I prefer 'to use, said mold being the subjectof another application, filed October 24, 1895, Serial No. 566,723.

The subject of this present application is the mold-line, constructed ofany suitable individual molds arranged in the order to be assumed by thetype in the form.

Referring to the drawings which accompany the specification to aid inexplaining it, Figure l is an elevation of a blank for forming adivision-wall between the matrices for individual type. The blanks,together with the matrices, form the molds for individual types and areorganized into a mold-line, as indicated. Fig. 1 is a perspective viewof a plain bar for use in forming a space-mold. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of a mold-line made up of matrices,wall-blanks, and top and bottomplates. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a space-mold opener by which thewidth of the space can be varied as needed for justification. Fig. 4 isa front elevation. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 0c of Fig.3, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the space-mold. Fig. 7 is a frontelevation.

Fig. 8 is a cross-section on the line y y of Fig.

7 of a modified mold-opener, and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of aspace-mold formed with the same. Fig..10 is a perspective view of atype-slug provided with a shank to facilitate a removal from the mold.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A is a matrixbar, a being the chambercontaining the letter or character, as W. B is awall-plate; b, a fingerprojecting therefrom at right angles. The matrix-bars and wall-platesare provided with suitable devices for assembling and distributing thesameas, for example, the tal-' are to assume in the printed form.

ons c 0, slot d, and chamber 6. In assembling the mold-line saidmatrix-bars and wall-plates will be arranged alternately and in theorder the individual words, letters, or characters The tops and bottomsof the molds are formed of plates D, which are held down hard on theedges of the fingers b by appropriate devices during casting. \Vhen anindividual space is to be cast, the mold will be formed with a bar AFig.- 1 in all respects resembling the bar A, except that it has nochamber and no character-matrix. The sides of the space-mold will beformed by the fingers of wall-plates, and the tops and bottoms of suchmold will be formed by plates 0 I). Thus the mold-line will consist ofindividual molds adapted to cast individual Words, letters, orcharacters and spaces, and arranged in the order which said words,letters, or characters and spaces are to assume in the printed form.

Different wall-plates B will have the fingers b of different widths, asindicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and thus the molds can bearranged so as to cast leaded or doubleleaded matter, or matter withoutleads, at will. Said molds are also made adjustable as to the spaces, inthe manner hereinafter described.

Fig. 4 shows a mold adjustable as to spaces. A A B are respectively twoshort and one long wedges, the faces 10 10 of the wedges A A beingparallel. Said wedges are movably secured together in any suitablemanner, as by the guides 11, working in the slots 12, and the pins 13,headed in the wedges A A and working in the slot L in the wedge B.Fingers 16 17 project perpendicularly from the wedges A A, the innerfaces of said fingers overlapping the wedge 13, as seen in Figs. 4 and5. Evidently according to the position of the wedge 13 will the width ofthe space be greater or less, and the top and bottom of the mold beingformed with plates 0 D, as described, individual spaces will be cast ofany width at will.

It will be clear from the description of Figs. 1 and 2 that theadjustable space-mold will be assembled in the mold-line whereverdesired, and thus the mold-line will consist of individual words,letters, and characters and spaces, already assembled in the order thesame are to assume in the printed form and spaced ready forjustification, the operator opening or closing any mold-space at will bythe aforesaid mold-openers, as described.

Figs. 7, 8, and 9 show the adjustable spacemold formed with a wall-blankand a modified two-part wedge or mold-opener. B is the wall plate withfinger b, as hereinbefore described. A B are the two parts of the wedgesecured together in any suitable manner-as, for example, by the rib 20,working in the groovezl, and the pin. 22, headed in wedge A and slidingthrough a slot 23 in wedge B 25 is a finger on the wedge A with itsinner face overlapping the wedge B 0 and D are respectively the top andbottom plates, as before.

Evidently the mold is the equivalent, both in construction and use, ofthat shown in Figs. 3 to 6 for producing individual spaces of variablewidths in a mold-line.

Now, having described my improvements, I claim as my invention- Amold-line adapted to cast at a single operation a type-line made up ofindividuallyseparated letters words and characters, and consisting of aplurality of individual independent molds provided with closed walls andalready arranged in the order finally to be assumed by said individualletters, words and characters in a type-form, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 8th day of December, 1894.

lVILLlAM BERRI. lVitnesses:

WM. 11. AITKEN, ABBAN RUCKMICH.

